Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society [Hardcover]

For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. This book seeks to redress this pattern of neglect, presenting a comprehensive perspective on the history and significance of Asian American athletes, coaches, and teams in North America. The contributors interrogate the sociocultural contexts in which Asian Americans lived and played, detailing the articulations of power and possibility, difference and identity, representation and remembrance that have shaped the means and meanings of Asian Americans playing sport in North America. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the Asian American experience, ethnic relations, and the history of sport.

1. Introduction: Sport, Racism, and the Media  C. Richard King  Society  2. Beyond Black and White: Chinese American Womens Experience in Sports  Yomee Lee  3. A Haunt in the Hunt: The Oriental Specter in the Wisconsin Deer Stand Incident  Rory J. Ong  4. Liting It Up : Indo-Pak Basketball and Finding the American-ness in South Asian American Institutions  Stanley Thangaraj  5. Cheering for Our Team: Coverage of Womens Basketball in a Japanese-American Community Newspaper  Nicole Willms  6. Sex, Sports, and Spectatorship: The Transnational Erotics of Korean Athletes  Rachael M. Joo  Celebrity  7. American Memory and Chi Cheng  CL Cole  8. The Spring of 1989: Michael Chang, Roland Garros, and Tiananmen Square  Nancy Spencer  9. Chow Can Coach: Against Model Minorlã3